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Fare at the NY art fairs – Pulse and Volta

We ran into a lot of folks at the art fairs last week. Some we knew, others were artists and gallerists we were meeting for the first time. Either way, the art fairs are chat fests with conversations about art, sales and the exhilaration of being at the fair. Talk is the glue that holds the memory of the fair together this year.  Other years it was the art.  Here’s a brief report from Pulse, Volta and the Armory.

Light fare at the fairs-Part 2

It’s easy to see themes when you see so much work all at once as we did in two days at four art fairs. I saw polka dots all over the place, I saw snail mail references in three venues and things about communities seemed to crop up everywhere. I guess it’s the anthropologist in all of us. We want to group things together and classify and study them. I have always loved doing it. And many artists seem to be doing this kind of armchair anthropology in their work at the moment. Part 1 of this post is here.